SPORTING ITEMS. THE TURF. Owners and others interested are given a leminder that entries for ill) handicap events in the forthcoming Coleraiue races mnst be lodged with the secretary not later than next Thursdaj% and accompanied by the proper fees. Mr. .T. 1&amp;lt;". Kirby's Tlie Parisian has closed his racing career. This fam ous horse returned to Mt. Koroite on Thursday evening, looking well, showing no signs of lameness, and being as frisky as many younger in years. Besides liis famous win of the Melbourne Cup in 1911 The : Parisian has also been first in the Hamilton Cup, Warrnambool Cup, Australian Cup and other races, and second in the last Champion Stakes. The second day's racing at Hamilton gave the following results :— Handicap Trial Stakes.—Abbey Craig, Loch Free, Isabel Jay. Pony Race —Coronation, Union Label, Cymro. Steeplechase —Cuach, Dan the Ran ger, Southerly ■ -Murndal Handicap.—Haufc Bus, Coupar, Miss Merriang. Hurdles.—Scotch Mixture, Chatter Boy, J.D.Gt Flyi...

FARMERS' ITEMS. A Coudah Swamp settler.iant. block of l-l- acres lias recently changed ownership at £27 12/G per acre. March cream ami milk accounts to the Colac dairying company have lioen compiled, and the sum distri buted amounts £7881 7/(5, as against .69218 16/9 for the corresponding month of 191:5, or a decrease of 1 2 9/3. This payment is the lowest on record for a liumbev of years, and provides ample evidence of the exceptional dryness of the season. Supplies of butter are so low that considerable difficulty is being experienced in tilling customers' orders. The price paid per lb. but ter fat is lwd in advance of that paid for the month of March last year. Cheques range from £312 1-1/4 down as low as 2s. Egg payments aomunt to £35 IS/3. The output of butter for the past month was 69 tons IS ewt., being a decrease in this direc tion of 21 ions 12 ewt.. as compared with March, 1913. c

(Solevame 3tiMorn punusnisn kvrry Monday and THURSDAY EVENING. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1914. Tim supplying shareholders of fclie Coleraine Butter Factory who were , absent from tlio meeting' held at the Tempera,uce Hall last week should lose no tirue in co-operating with their, brother suppliers in acquiring such shares of the company as are available. Solf-intoresfc, apart from ' mutual interest and mutual obliga tion, points to this promptness of action. In the light which has been 1 shed on the methods of co-operative and proprietary companies the man j who depends on his cows for a living | cannot afford to disregard the policy of working in unison. Under present-day conditions co-operative control is the only avenue to econo mical administration." Every shil ling put into shares will come back in savings effected, and | every penny withh.eld will stealthily rob the suppliers in the shape of reduced returns. The pur chase of the available shares is the only way by which the suppliers ...

DISTRICT RAILWAYS Hamilton, This Day. It is expected tli/it :l commence" meiit will bo made withni ;l month of tlio Hamilton-Cavendish line, the Railway Department having received •a cheque from the Railway Trust. A deputation will wait on the Minister of Railways en Wednesday to urge Kdenhope's connection with one of the railway systems of the dis trict.

NEWS AND NOTES. D HAT 11 (>!• A YOUTH. A distressing bereavement lias be 'alien Mr and Mrs. Walter I'eareef jf I'.ril lirit, by reason of the death or ;hoir eldest son, Willi mi, who, iiflu Juiny ill in the Hamilton Hospital fo ;\vo months, J1 away on J/Yidav roui (roubles which start d from a :old. Everything ha I been done for he youth 1 hat was possible, but the itniost remedies were unequal to the evority of his illness (.loneral sym lathy for the beieaved has been roused, and was shown to .some ex eut }'estei'day when the l'uncral took , ■Ihco ye-derday a( the CoUvainu come SALE OF LAX I). The Education Department lias urchaml from the Mcilunlist Church A thai area of land from which the Coleraine Clnirch was recently re inoved. This transaction "vill give tor State school purposes the whole of the section bounded by M'Kcbery Street, lienty Street, and Portland lload. A TRANSCONTINENTAL CYCLIST. Scarcely recognisable oil account of his mild-bespattered state, a well known ov...

SHIRE OF WflNNOW. DOG ACT 1800. ,V OTICE is hereby given that legal , proceedings wilJ bo taken, after the lotli day o£ March, lUl-l, against y Hie owner of any unregistered dog over | the age of six months. All owners of dogs within the Shire should register same by lurnisliing to the undersigned a j description of the dog desired to be | registered, together with the annual . registration fee of five shillings. I J. G. MACLEAN, I Dog ^Registration Ollicor. i Shire Olliec, Coleraine. March 3rd, 11)1-1. ' | ; HIRE OF WANNON. CAl.'TiOK TO TRAVELLERS ■ ' tp HE Briugo on liho two-chain roa' JL between U. Kelso's allot. * j sec. 2fl, a tit allot. 4, see. 17, in tlffl i parish ol Hilgay is unsale for load I csewting one ton for each wheel. By order, A. WALLS, [ Shire Secretary ! Stoirc Hr.il, i BST UK !£,!= ACKAg

Colcrainc Branch V.Tj.C. SENATOR BARNES Will address a PUBLIC .MKKTINCr In C'oleraine Mechanic.-.' Hal! on MONDAY, RfiAY 4th, at 8 p.m. DO not condemn tf\&amp;lt;_- Labor Party ou what their opponents say. Come ami hear Senator llurnes and judge for yourself. Ladies cordially invited to attend. If. COUSTLEY, Hon. Secretary. DANCING MISS G-AFFI\1£Y liegs to announce that slier' will conduct a weekly Dancing Class at the Coleraine Me chanics' Hall, commencing Tuesday evening, 28th iast. (to-morrow), at 8 o'clock, at which all the latest dances will he taught. Funeral Notice. r\ ILLESPIE,—Tin; friends of tlie t X late Vcv. W. ,J. Gillespie are re spcctfully informed Mint his remains will lie inteiTcd in the Coleraine Cemetery 011 Tuesday, 2St.li April. The funeral irili leave St. Andrew's Clnireh at the close of a short service to commence at ] 1 a.m. H. ,T. WHEELEli, Undertaker. Acknowledgment. TVf 11. JOHN M'DONALD wishes to If I TJTANK all those who assisted him (particularly Se...

SOUVENIR PICTDqES. Every SATyslDAV Slight i NEXT SATURDAYS j JV1AY 2 Git AND 2-.STAR i'KOti UAMMii, CwatCirewCatastrap&amp;e AX!) A B?ath3i's Barbara's^ . —AND— A GRAND SSL£CT!ON OF OTHER VSEWS. . . Good Music. Good Ftctms-es EverytSsjnj; {Perfect. First Pictures at 8.15 slwirp. ' Popular Prices—1/ any where, children luilf-price. F. BUKCiLETT, Proprietor. SHIRE OF WANNON. APPLICATIONS POll POSITION OF HERDSMAN. Applications, addressed to the President, mid endorsed as sur-Ji, are invited iitul will be received until 12 noon on Saturday, Ma}' !)th, 191!., for llie position of Herdsman at a salary at the rate of ,£50 per annum and 25 per cent, of the registration fees collected. Schedule of duties inay be inspected at the Shire^Oflices, Coloraine. By Order, A. WALLS, Shire Secretary Shire Olllees, Ooleraine. April 23, 191'lv Colcraino Gun Ciub. ' jj 'HE Annual meeting of the above a will be htfld at Ryan's Hotel oil Thursday, 30th, at 8130 p.m. All mem- ' b;rs and intending membe...

PULVERISING THE SOIL. The mechanical condition of the soil lms much lo do with the acquiring of plain food for crops. The roots may hnvp some difficulty in deriving nutri ment from a clod, but if the clod is po'.vdoreil the roots enn at once utilise nil the sul'stances contained therein, ll alfo requires more moisr.nre to dis solve clods.than can lie FJiwcd, especi ally in summer. By work-ins the soil fine, not only is the cjrouiid more cap able of holding liioistnr". but the feed in;; capacity i-f. Uie roo'u !s greatly in -reascu.